"The Body Snatcher" focuses on questioning the ethical meaning behind resurrectionists in order to depict a social issue. Robert Louis Stevenson effectively used historical events and key ideas from the Victorian Era to accurately convey the lack of morals behind body snatching. The Victorian Era was a time of reform, and Stevenson uses this key idea to promote reform for social problems. In this timeline I will be describing historical events from the 19th century that displays the context behind Robert Stevenson's short story, "The Body Snatcher."